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Originally posted by Liliara:
Out of curiosity, where are you a professor, anyway? (Not an issue of putting anyone down, just want to know where not to send my kids. If you don't know the diference between patriotism, and what Hitler insighted his nation to, I really don't want my children (when I have them) exposed to a school who would hire you.)
Again, this is NOT a flame (although Dio welcomed flames in his post) I am really SERIOUS!!!
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Liliaria, you get the strangest ideas about me.
For the record, I am not a pacifist, an atheist, nor a professor or teacher.
And anyway, my point is about patriotism leading people to blindly follow their government, not to the ends of the particular government.
Patriotism is a MORALLY NEUTRAL quality. It can be a force used both for good and bad. It is simply a tool in the hands of government leaders, to be manipulated and used for their own ends.